We're Getting There!
After almost 2 years, the final draft is very close. Many of you know there was a problem with the previous company. We felt abandoned by it. Through a referral, we have found much better assistance, scraped the old manuscript and title, and started a completely new book. If you pre-ordered, we will honor your order of the old title with the new title.
We started the new book November 17, 2014. We completed the first draft mid-February 2015. We are headed toward the final draft through a series of edits from people internal and external to the process.
The editing process is painful in a number of ways. Here are two for now:
- We have to go back and remember the things we tried to forget. The emotions can come back on you; happy, sad, mad, loneliness… it can get knotted up.
- Guilt! A sense of guilt from decisions we made became a problem. If we knew back then what we know now… we made many decisions in ignorance. Maybe, somethings I should have known? Maybe we could have prevented Mia’s regression or prevented the time we came breaths away from losing her?
During editing, I relive it over and over and over and over…. You get the picture. But, after all that, most of all, I find the editing process very healing. I have to talk it out with Craig and one or two others helping with the book. Editing has led to a better frame of mind which helps me help Mia even more.
